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whitezb
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November 3, 2009
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Error - The folder, C:\..., is missing from your project...

  • November 3, 2009
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I am receiving the error message:

RoboHelp HTML

The folder, <filepath here>, is missing from your project folder and will be recreated.  Files from that folder will be shown as missing.  Pleae delete the folder properly from Project Manager.

1.  I am using  RoboHelp 8

2.  I never tried to delete said folder in any way

3.  The folder exists with all the files that should be there in the project folder.

It may be related or not, but

4.  There are four topics that come up in my broken links that do not seem to be in any way related to the above

     - The last time I made changes, I did not delete any topics

5.  Trying to do anything results in RoboHelp crashing.

I inherited this Help File (which is very poorly organized)

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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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November 3, 2009

I have moved your post to the RH HTML forum as it is not related to the webhelp output.

In this forum you will see a rash of posts about this problem that provide the answer. See Opening RH Projects on my site.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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whitezbAuthor
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November 4, 2009

I have followed the steps outlined at http://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/opening/opening_projects.htm.

1.  Renaming the cpd file resulted in a significant amount of deleted files

2.  I proceeded to opening the .fpj file.  Opening this, it only lists top level folders.  It did not lost sub-folders or htm files

3.  HHP File -

     a.  At first glance, I don't see significant damage.

     b.  I opened the HHP file and ran the unused file report.  This resulted in a file about 50 pages long.

          - looking at the file, it lists a directory, Utilities\Options.  All of the files located in this directory are also located within the two sub-directories located in Utilities\Options\System and Utilities\Options\User.  I have confirmed that duplicate files exist.  This appears to be the issue in a number of cases, the top level directories (such as <project name>\Utilities) contains duplicate copies of all files located in sub-directories

          - if I can confirm that all the files listed in the unused files report are duplicates, is it safe to delete them?  How?

          - could this be a possible cause to my issues?

Utilities\Options

Utilities\Options\System_Options

Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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November 4, 2009

I proceeded to opening the .fpj file.  Opening this, it only lists top level folders.  It did not lost sub-folders or htm files

Each FPJ shows only the sub-folders and files hanging off that folder.

Folder1

Folder2

Folder3

Folder4

folder1.fpj will list the topics in folder1 and the folders - folder2 and folder3. It will not contain any reference to folder4, that will be in the FPJ for Folder 3.

Did you edit the FPJ?

If you are 100% sure, you delete the duplicates using Windows Explorer. Personally I would either backup the project first or archive those files somewhere just in case you later find you were wrong. I notice the file dates are different.

Duplicate topics should not cause a problem, other than confusing you and your users.

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